On 12/07/2010 12:59 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:54:29 +0100 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck<dieter@plaetinck.be>:
so yeah, lets figure out if this info is still up to date, and how we should proceed. it looks like we shoud just use parted, if we can find/make an ncurses frontend for it, all problems should be magically solved. I'm not familiar with GPT, too. I got to know it at FrOSCon 2010 at the FreeBSD booth. Nevertheless it looked quite interesting and is necessary for partitions bigger than 2 TB.
I don't know its usability, but there's a CLI tool for GPT: gdisk resp. GPT fdisk http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/index.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/
I've been using gdisk (specifically sgdisk) for a while now to do Arch Linux installs on GPT partitioned disks. I use Syslinux for booting as that has good GPT support for legacy (non UEFI) BIOSes. I submitted patches (which were accepted and are in sgdisk 0.6.13) to the gdisk project to add attribute bit setting in sgdisk (needed to boot from a GPT partition). Since my installs are scripted I don't need an ncurses front end. My disk setup script also takes over the whole disk (I provide it with partition sizes in a text file), which is not a limitation of AIF from what I've seen. My disk setup script script also installs Syslinux on the /boot partition and makes it able to boot. I developed my own setup/install scripts back in May of this year, primarily because AIF did not support GPT and Syslinux, but I may be able to contribute to AIF development is desired so that I can use AIF instead of my custom set up scripts. (I've not looked in AIF that much, I do some automated scripted post install configuration and pull in other files which I don't know if AIF supports, I need to read up on it more). All this to say I would be a lot more interested in AIF if it had full GPT and Syslinux support, and I'd be willing to contribute to AIF development if necessary to make that happen if AIF would end up meeting my needs. -- Dwight Schauer